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Another month for the real thing, forgot preseason started already. Looks like they had a few games already, 5 today. Will take a look, better than nothing. I've always thought the preseason games were a little bit foolish since you can lose some key players in games that don't even count. But you can work on some things too I guess.

You would think they were more silly if you had to pay for tickets to these worthless games as part of a season ticket holder. I wasted my tickets last night and gave away the ones for the next game for free.

My tickets to the falcon game the other night went in the garbage unused. I gave away the other tickets to a charity so some kids can go to a game. It just kills me when I have to pay for these games though.

I feel the same with the Pro Bowl games too. You have some of the very best in the NFL, lots of franchise players whose career could be ended or games and seasons missed. I bet organizations and fans are nervous as hell when those games take place.

Yep Trust - the risk of injury in meaningless games seems a bit counter productive. Guess Clinton Portis learned that one this weekend. On the other hand - they make a pretty nice living, so guess we have to let the coaches have a good look at the newbies.

Pre Season is part of getting ready for the season. What is the difference in a player getting hurt during practice or during a preseason game? It's still an injury. The risk is there all the time and its part of the game.

I for one, felt a little sorry for Portis until I heard him complaining about the amount of work (Games) he had to play in. Honestly. From a regular Joe standpoint, I don't pity a guy for making x amount of dollars all the while playing a game most of us would give our right arms for and then complaining that its just too much work!

I know he was just upset and probably speaking off the cuff but he was referencing back when the NFL only had 12 or 14 games a season, as if 4 games in the preseason (in which he appears in a very limited amount) and 16 games during the regular season was TOO MUCH WORK? Give me a break. Its bad luck for him, his fans and the Redskins that he got injured but that's part of the game. Besides, he is lucky that this occured in the 1st preseason game vs the 1st regular season game or worse, the 12th regular season game.

I would like to see the preseason reduced to 3 games, but it will never happen. The NFL and teams make too much revenue from these games regardless of if you attend them or not. Figure that the average ticket & consession is $100 per person (which is probably way low) and there are 70,000 seats. That's $7 million in revenue. Owners and the NFL won't give it up.

On a side note, I remember 1999 when Trent Green played for the Rams and was injured in the 4th game of the pre-season and out for the year. An unknown Arena League QB named Kurt Warner stepped in and took them to a Super Bowl championship. Probably one of the best stories in football that wouldn't have happened without that 4th pre-season game.

Anyway, can't wait for the real thing so I can see my Steelers defend their championship.

I think IF they lower the number of PreSeason games they had best RAISE the number of Regular season games. The fact is PreSeason is PART of the strategy of the season itself. The teams get to suss out the players see a little strategy and figure out who is who. Portis being injured like he did MEANS nothing because he could have suffered the same injury at ANY TIME and if they were just THROWN into a regular season without some "warmup" games were they only play part of a quarter I anticipate there would be MORE regular season injuries mostly due to fatigue.

BTW Go Vikings.... (Yeah right oh well there is always next year LOL)

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I think IF they lower the number of PreSeason games they had best RAISE the number of Regular season games. The fact is PreSeason is PART of the strategy of the season itself. The teams get to suss out the players see a little strategy and figure out who is who. Portis being injured like he did MEANS nothing because he could have suffered the same injury at ANY TIME and if they were just THROWN into a regular season without some "warmup" games were they only play part of a quarter I anticipate there would be MORE regular season injuries mostly due to fatigue.

If you have a Dish subscription you can get just about any preseason game on the NFL channel - they run just about every game on a delay. Good thing it is my Father-inlaw's Dish - I would be watching the channel non-stop if I had it.

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Pre-Season almost encourages you not to buy season tickets. I don't know why they don't just charge you more and tell you pre-season is free...at least I wouldn't feel like I am paying full price for worthless games. I think instead of using the selling point of $80 per seat per game for 10 games I rather see $100 per seat and pre-season games are free.

I sold one pre-season game on stubhub to make something back but basically still just gave them away by charging $20 a pop.

Palmer was looking good in his first game back from the injury 9/14 3 TDs. Favre on the other hand, I wish he retired. Great future Hall of Famer but threw 29 interceptions last year, next worst was 17. Going to be more of the same. Hate to see athletes not know when to quit.

i was searching through new threads, and found this one. i have found my home for the next 5 months. thank god!

palmer looked great, but hopefully that wasn't because they were up against the packers' defense. i think that division is still a toss up though. baltimore has the potential to be very very dominating this year. and the steelers are still the steelers! bus or no bus.